"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

“I think that wins the award for the most politically stupid statement of the year. We can retire it right now, in June.”

I’ll concede that it was gratuitous, tin-eared, and inarticulate. BigFurHat has educated me on the point. But we have some really stiff competition here.
Just for starters, via Gateway Pundit, we have word of the reaction to the Secretary of State from AZ-Gov:

“This is no way to treat the people of Arizona,” said Governor Brewer. “To learn of this lawsuit through an Ecuadorean interview with the Secretary of State is just outrageous. If our own government intends to sue our state to prevent illegal immigration enforcement, the least it can do is inform us before it informs the citizens of another nation.”

Governor Brewer said, “I just visited with the President in the Oval Office about our differences over immigration policy, and the one firm understanding we had was that within two weeks he would provide details of his commitment to deploy National Guard troops to the border. While I am grateful that communications have taken place about a possible visit by Administration staff before the end of the month, there is not yet a confirmed date. More importantly, no information about additional troop and border security enhancements has been provided by the Obama Administration to the citizens of Arizona.”

Really. If Governor Brewer didn’t at least get an Executive Order to back up the conversation with BHO, she got less than Rep. Stupak. Which is less than zero.

Less Than Zero recalls a flick with a soundtrack featuring Slayer covering Iron Butterfly, which leads to this disturbingly appropriate bit of YouTubery, which is apparently an outtake from a horror flick I haven’t seen. Viewer discretion advised:

What would life be like if the memory spent on useless associations like that were full of something useful?

Update: via American Power, Governor Brewer has launched Keep AZ Safe. Now, if she is transparent and effective in getting citizens to pay voluntarily what their tax dollars are supposed to be doing, how silly will Obama Won Kabuki look?

Smitty – SMITTY – you’ve never seen Manhunter?? You definitely need to hit the NetFlix. It is the first movie version of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon with Joan Allen as Reba, the blind girl that works with Dollarhyde, Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter and a young William Peterson as the reluctant ex-FBI-profiler, Will Graham. Parts were filmed in Atlanta. Darker and creepier than the Edward Norton later edition.

As much as I love Anthony Hopkins, Cox’s Lecter was the better performance. Hopkins tries to hard to act the monster, whereas Cox is the monster. You feel the evil oozing from his every pore, but to the casual observer, he appears to be perfectly normal. Or as normal as a psychopathic serial killer can appear to be.

Smitty – SMITTY – you’ve never seen Manhunter?? You definitely need to hit the NetFlix. It is the first movie version of Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon with Joan Allen as Reba, the blind girl that works with Dollarhyde, Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter and a young William Peterson as the reluctant ex-FBI-profiler, Will Graham. Parts were filmed in Atlanta. Darker and creepier than the Edward Norton later edition.

As much as I love Anthony Hopkins, Cox’s Lecter was the better performance. Hopkins tries to hard to act the monster, whereas Cox is the monster. You feel the evil oozing from his every pore, but to the casual observer, he appears to be perfectly normal. Or as normal as a psychopathic serial killer can appear to be.

@Obi’s Sister,
I saw Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. Death porn, like any other porn, just doesn’t add to my joy in existence.

Joe June 18th, 2010 @ 6:50 am

Barton was trying to speak for his constituents in Houston who depend on the oil industry. He has a point, I agree with him in spirit, but politically it was done in an idiotic manner. This spill belongs to Obama and the last thing Republicans need to do is try to defend BP. Jeez Louise, BP was one of Obama’s biggest donors.

Will Obama engaged in shennangins with the 20 billion? Yeah, probably. Given he has squandered more than 1000 billion dollars of our money in less than two years, why is that a surprise?

But BP was reckless and frankly a few of those executives belong in jail. Seriously. What happened at that rig was criminal. BP executives cut safety protocols to increase stock value. BP was repeatedly warned about dangers on that rig–this was a completely preventable accident. 11 workers died and millions will be devestated economically–and don’t get me started on the evironmental devestation (I was actually going to go fishing out of Gulfport this summer). Sorry to sound like a Greenpeacer, but the BP executives responsible can go to hell (I feel sorry for its workers).

Joe June 18th, 2010 @ 2:50 am

Barton was trying to speak for his constituents in Houston who depend on the oil industry. He has a point, I agree with him in spirit, but politically it was done in an idiotic manner. This spill belongs to Obama and the last thing Republicans need to do is try to defend BP. Jeez Louise, BP was one of Obama’s biggest donors.

Will Obama engaged in shennangins with the 20 billion? Yeah, probably. Given he has squandered more than 1000 billion dollars of our money in less than two years, why is that a surprise?

But BP was reckless and frankly a few of those executives belong in jail. Seriously. What happened at that rig was criminal. BP executives cut safety protocols to increase stock value. BP was repeatedly warned about dangers on that rig–this was a completely preventable accident. 11 workers died and millions will be devestated economically–and don’t get me started on the evironmental devestation (I was actually going to go fishing out of Gulfport this summer). Sorry to sound like a Greenpeacer, but the BP executives responsible can go to hell (I feel sorry for its workers).

“If our own government intends to sue our state to prevent illegal immigration enforcement, the least it can do is inform us before it informs the citizens of another nation.”–But to this administration, Arizona IS the foreign nation.

Barton still wins.

BP is not owed an apology–they cut corners. But the fund should have been set up by Congress or the Courts, not by a strong-arming “strongman”, banana-republic-style, especially when the Executive branch is already in charge of regulating and criminally investigating.

“If our own government intends to sue our state to prevent illegal immigration enforcement, the least it can do is inform us before it informs the citizens of another nation.”–But to this administration, Arizona IS the foreign nation.

Barton still wins.

BP is not owed an apology–they cut corners. But the fund should have been set up by Congress or the Courts, not by a strong-arming “strongman”, banana-republic-style, especially when the Executive branch is already in charge of regulating and criminally investigating.

SHAMELESS CAPITALISM

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